The police car was struck while it was stopped on I-295 and its officer was assisting Maine State Police with another crash Saturday night.
Maine Crime
Police, crime and courts news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Saco man arrested in Old Port assault
Matthew Calvert, 22, is charged with aggravated assault, police say.
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Defrocked priest, 76, sentenced to spend 16 years in prison for sexually abusing boy in Maine
A jury convicted Ronald Paquin last year on 11 of 24 counts of gross sexual misconduct stemming from incidents in the 1980s.
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Jury rules Augusta officer did not use excessive force in 2015 shooting of man who held knife
Augusta police Officer Laura Drouin, who shot and injured then-Riverview patient Jason Begin in a 2015 confrontation, was cleared Friday in a federal civil lawsuit.
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Bar Harbor man found guilty of raping and murdering former classmate
Jalique Keene, 22, testified in his own defense Friday and acknowledged that a security camera showed him carrying the lifeless body of 19-year-old Mikaela Conley in the early morning of June 1, 2018.
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Auburn man to serve two years for gas station robbery
Ryan Lizotte also is sentenced to serve four years of a previously suspended sentence for burglary and theft.
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Buxton man accused of setting car and woods on fire
Police say Donovan Sanborn also threatened people with an ax during the incident last week on Old Thompson Road.
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Pair suspected of robbing Limerick store at gunpoint arrested in Montana
The suspects were caught after driving in Montanta in a car they had taken without permission from Maine.
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Private music teacher indicted on 19 more counts of unlawful sexual contact
Joshua King, 32, of Wiscasset is charged with molesting one of his students, now 9 years old, over a two-year period.
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Auburn man killed in standoff had amassed stolen guns at home, police say
More details are released on the hours-long standoff Tuesday in Auburn that ended with Steven Case, 29, being killed by a member of the Maine State Police Tactical Team.